Potok To Adapt `Chosen` To Stage

April 19, 1985|The New York Times

NEW YORK — A bit of nice news -- and a possible successor to Fiddler on the Roof. M- Square Entertainment with William S. Hack has obtained the rights to Chaim Potok`s Chosen, and Potok has agreed to write the book for the musical.

The budget, some $4.5 million, is apparently assured and the producers are thinking in terms of Hal Linden, Robby Benson or Barry Miller. Broadway by June 1986 is the aim.

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How about Jeanne Moreau in Tennessee Williams` Night of the Iguana? The thought occurred to the producers Fred Walker and Michael Lonergan and that`s why the play, with the French star, is scheduled to open on Broadway this fall.

Arthur Sherman, who received a Tony nomination for The Caine Mutiny Court- Martial, will direct.

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Another familiar name will be with us next month. Glynis Johns will co- star with Milo O`Shea in The Return of Herbert Bracewell, by Andrew Johns. The production, to be directed by Geraldine Fitzgerald, opens May 14 at the Chelsea Playhouse, 519 W. 23rd St.; (212) 243-0992.